Instruction in this color-illustrated book introduces three of the most commonly used dry media for drawing and sketching. Roughly the first one-third of this art students' manual explains the properties and uses of charcoal, sanguine crayon, and chalk, and demonstrates how to get started with them on art projects. Information here includes recommended papers, ways of making strokes, shading, color blending, tonal range, and correcting mistakes. The book's remaining two-thirds presents a series of 16 practical exercises that employ all three media. Exercises include creating chiaroscuro (shades and shadows), drawing still-lifes and landscapes, mastering perspective, drawing nudes, and making portraits. Here is a practical art class instruction manual that can also be used as a self-teaching book by ambitious amateur artists. Full-color illustrations on nearly every page.
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Here is detailed instruction in three expressive and commonly used dry media for drawing and sketching. You’ll find descriptions of the properties of charcoal, sanguine crayon, and chalk, and demonstrations of how to put each medium to use in your art projects. Advice covers recommended papers, making strokes, shading, coloring, blending, tonal valuation, and ways of correcting mistakes. You’ll also learn from a series of exercises that employ all three media. They’ll teach you to create chiaroscuro (shades and shadows), master perspective, and draw still lifes, landscapes, nudes, and portraits. Color illustrations on nearly every page.
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27 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Some keyword demonstrations,
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This review is from: Charcoal, Sanguine Crayon, and Chalk: Instruction and exercises for drawing and sketching in three popular artists' media (Paperback)
The Charcoal, Sanguine Crayon and Chalk (CSC for short) is a somewhat difficult medium to find learning material on. Most books on pastel or painting mention "redchalk" or "sanguine" merely in passing as a sketching tool. Books on drawing hardly mention it at all. In this respect, this little book is almost unique in that it treats redchalk (drawing with black, sanguine and white chalks) as a subject in its own.The book is essentially divided in two, where the first part deals with the media and tools needed for working with chalks. The text is some 90 pages long, and the first 25 or so pages are spent on tools, chalks, papers, blending, perspective, sketching etc. Most subjects are treated on two pages with huge pictures and a few lines of text. Of course, no one will learn, say, perspective or scetching from such breaf treatises alone, so the very beginner may want to look elsewhere to get some basic concepts and skills in place. The last part of the book is devoted to "practical exercises". The exercises are very nice in that they suggest how the painting evolves through the various stages. My previous experince is with pencils and drawing, so I was quite happy to see that the paintings here look quite "bleak" through most of the work; only after the last few finishing touches does the portraits "spring to life". That's the kind of demostrattion that is most valuable for preserving inspiration in an would-be autodidact like myself. Most of the emphasis on CSC is presented from the painter's point of view. The basic techniques are based on various ways of handling the chalk bars with the objective of making surfaces of color on the paper. No matter if one uses cross hatching or side strokes, once the color is on the paper it is blended with a stump, cloth or brush. The demonstrations clearly show that such techniques can produce stunning results, but I would like to see more of the "drawing" techniques, i.e. lines and cross hatching left in place in the finished work. Painters appear to regard CSC as a fast and efficient tool for preliminary sketches, a tool for some sort of "limited painting". To me, CSC is a form of "extended drawing" that lets me do things and exploit effects the pencil alone does not provide. Unfortunately, this little book does not treat the "drawing aspects" of CSC. All in all, this book provides great insporation as well as quite a few hints and suggestions about techniques and tricks. Although it leaves a bit to be desired, both on emphasis and in depth of coverage, and thus could be punished quite severely in terms of stars, the important point is that this book is actually available, providing suggestions, tricks and inspiration for trying out Charcoal, Sangune Crayon and Chalk.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Judith Hamilton "buggin" Janesville, Wisc. USA,
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Excellent source of information for would be artists. Completely satisfied and would recommend it to family or friends.
8 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
a wonderful book!,
By Dave in Hagerstown "oriolesfan61" (Hagerstown, MD, United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Charcoal, Sanguine Crayon, and Chalk: Instruction and exercises for drawing and sketching in three popular artists' media (Paperback)
This book helps you learn the "painterly" way of drawing with the broader dry media. Even though not specifically for pastels, it will help your pastel works.
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